MTN has accused the Competition Commission of using outdated information in preparing its report on the data services market in South Africa.
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The Competition Commission has floated the idea of enforcing functional and/or accounting separation on South Africa’s large mobile operators –…
Vodacom and MTN shares fell after one of South Africa’s competition regulator found that the country’s two largest mobile phone companies overcharge customers for data.
After conducting high-profile public hearings last October, the Competition Commission is readying a provisional report on the data services market in South Africa.
The Competition Commission has elected not to refer complaints against pay-television operator MultiChoice and its SuperSport subsidiary to the Competition Tribunal.
Three media companies have collectively been fined tens of millions of rand for price fixing and the fixing of trading conditions. The Competition Commission wants the firms to cough up for their “cartel conduct”.
Streaming services pose a significant threat to MultiChoice’s future growth potential, but they are by no means the only risks exercising the minds of the pay-television operator’s management team.
Years after starting a process to sell its non-core assets, JSE-listed technology group Altron has received regulatory approval to dispose of the last company it had a controlling interest in and which it had ring-fenced for sale.
The Competition Tribunal has issued a R20-million “administrative penalty” against Computicket for abusing its dominance between mid-2005 and 2010. It has 60 business days to pay the fine.
The Competition Commission claims ticketing firm Computicket and its parent, retail group Shoprite Checkers, are guilty of anticompetitive conduct and has referred the two companies for prosecution.